The
modern economic development has to face the problem of environmental
protection. The environment is of great positive significance to the benign
development of the economy. In order to properly handle the relationship
between the two, efforts should be made to maintain the sustainable development
of economy and society by raising awareness of environmental protection,
advocating green production and life style, adhering to the combination of
economic development and environmental protection, accelerating the
construction of environmental infrastructure and strengthening environmental
protection law enforcement.

At
present, the contradiction between economic development and environmental
protection is becoming more and more acute. Failure to answer definitively
about the relationship raises a host of questions. If we assume that
development is economic growth, so that the economic growth rate increases for
a while, but more serious problems of environmental pollution emerge. Who comes
first and who comes second in terms of economic growth and environmental
protection? Without a clear understanding of the relationship between
development and the environment, the direct result is that the environmental
protection work has become hot and cold, and it has become a circular work,
which needs to be "centralized control" and "special
action" to fight the "war of annihilation". Environmental
protection inevitably falls into the situation of "lag, aftershock,
passivity and remedy" to some extent. If we find the balance point between
development and environment, deal with the relationship between the two, take
environmental protection as an important part of economic development planning,
realize the synchronization of environmental protection and economic
development, and achieve the win-win result of economic development and
environmental protection.

The
development based on market system has been proved to be the most effective way
in the existing economic development system. However, the resources on which
the economy depends are gradually being depleted, and the environment on which
human beings and other creatures depend is deteriorating. In the market, there
are many economic entities, which may be individual farmers, township
enterprises, state-owned enterprises or government departments. They are
trading with each other, getting their own needs in the deal, with little
regard for the interests of third parties. At the same time, the process of
environmental damage is slow. Only when it reaches a certain level, will the
environmental damage show sharply, but it is too late to make up for it.
Because environmental damage is irreversible and asymmetrical. Once the damage
has occurred, it may be permanently impossible to recover, or even if it can,
it will be costly. However, in the market, there is no market price information
to remind people to save resources and protect the environment. Therefore,
environmental protection must rely on the external environment, namely the
party and the government's macro-control. The report of the 17th national
congress of the communist party of China pointed out the direction for
environmental protection in the new era. Ecological civilization requires us to
synchronize development with environmental protection when dealing with the
relationship between economic development and environmental protection, ensure
sustainable economic development and take the road of scientific development.
The core of sustainable development is development, but it requires economic
and social development under the premise of environmental protection and
sustainable utilization of resources. Development is the premise of sustainable
development. Sustainable and long-term development is the real development. The
economy needs to develop and the environment needs to be protected.
Environmental problems cannot be solved by stopping development, nor can they
be solved after economic development, but by implementing the scientific
concept of development and taking the road of sustainable development in the
process of development. The blue sea, blue sky and green mountain and green
water make people feel comfortable, but what we pursue is the blue sea, blue
sky and green mountain and green water under the condition of highly developed
economy and society and extremely high living standard of the people.
Therefore, the problem we face is not whether to develop, but how to develop
better. We should protect the ecological environment in development and ensure
the sustainable development of economy and society with a sound ecological
environment.

Economic
growth and environmental protection are a pair of dialectical relations of
mutual promotion and mutual restriction, and their contradictory relations will
always exist. On the one hand, it is necessary to accelerate economic
development and realize industrialization and urbanization, which will
inevitably lead to over-exploitation of resources, environmental damage and increase
of pollutant emissions. On the other hand, as the economy develops and people's
living standards improve, we have entered the development stage of building a
well-off society in an all-round way. At the same time, a good environment is a
necessary condition for sustained economic and social development. Even in the
field of production, modern civilized production, especially the production and
circulation based on high technology, is difficult to carry out in the harsh
environment. However, there is always a conflict between the ecological
environment, social development and human needs: while the farmland is
constantly decreasing and soil erosion is serious, the population is
continuously growing, and the residential and industrial areas are constantly
expanding. Natural resources and energy resources are scarce and cannot be
exploited in an unrestricted way. Global warming, the emergence of abnormal and
severe weather, while greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. The
development is also consuming the natural environment to a great extent. This
kind of consumption can not all be recovered, such as the extinction or
near-extinction of biological species caused by environmental degradation, or
the irreversible ecological environmental cost that has been sacrificed in the
development economy.

However,
the contradictory relationship between environmental protection and economic
development is not irreconcilable. The two can rely on each other and develop
harmoniously.

Premier
wen jiabao stressed at the sixth national environmental protection conference
that the key to doing a good job in environmental protection under the new
circumstances is to accelerate the realization of three changes. Second,
environmental protection lags behind economic development and changes into a
synchronous process of environmental protection and economic development. The
third is to transform the protection of the environment mainly by
administrative means into the comprehensive application of law, economy,
technology and necessary administrative means to solve environmental problems.
The realization of these three changes requires us to stick to the road of
scientific development in economic construction. The traditional development
mode of "pollution first, treatment afterwards" in western developed
countries does not fit our reality. Environmental protection should be based on
the actual situation of our country's current economic development and
environmental protection, at the same time of economic development, to protect
the advantageous resources and environment, timely develop ecological
environment function, not beyond the carrying capacity of resources and
environment conditions, under the precondition of without compromising the
needs of future generations, for we need the development way of modern people.

Environmental
protection and ecological construction, instead of simply starting from
governance, should start from changing the behavior mode of human beings so as
to change the mode of economic and social development and achieve a win-win
situation of environmental protection and economic development. To achieve this
goal, the first priority is to cultivate people's awareness of environmental
protection. The survey results show that urban residents in China have an
urgent desire and need to improve the ecological environment. It is a good
phenomenon that urban residents are enthusiastic to participate in the
construction of ecological environment. The main body of protecting the
ecological environment is human beings. In terms of pollution and deterioration
of the environment, human beings bear the inescapable responsibility.
Therefore, human beings also bear the inescapable responsibility for the
protection of the ecological environment. The work of environmental protection
is inseparable from the general public. We need to mobilize the whole society
to participate in environmental protection and give full play to the role of
public opinion in guiding and supervising environmental protection. First,
environmental protection publicity should be widely carried out to guide the
public to realize the importance of the harmonious development of man and
nature, create a good atmosphere for the whole society to care for, support and
participate in environmental protection, and promote and popularize the
production and lifestyle required by building a resource-saving and
environment-friendly society. Second, information such as the status quo of
environmental protection, environmental quality and enterprise environmental behavior
should be disclosed to ensure the public's right to know. We will further
improve the information disclosure platform, promote openness in environmental
affairs, and make public announcements on environmental protection laws and
policies, project approval and case handling. For planning or projects
involving public environmental interests, it is also necessary to organize
seminars, hearings, listen to public opinions, accept the public's supervision,
and effectively guarantee the public's right to environmental participation and
supervision. Third, we will introduce specific measures to ensure people's
participation in environmental protection. We can recruit environmental
supervisors to the society, guide the establishment of civil society organizations
for environmental protection, encourage the public to report and expose
environmental violations, expand and expedite the channels for people to report
environmental problems, and improve environmental protection hearings and
public interest litigation, thus setting up a platform for various social
forces to participate in environmental protection. In this way, the change of
ecological and environmental protection concept from "want me to protect
the environment" to "want me to protect the environment" enables
people to realize the importance of protecting a good ecological environment
from their hearts, and then participate in environmental protection consciously
and choose a green production and lifestyle.

Environmental
protection should always be an integral part of economic development planning.
Environmental protection cannot be a cyclical "check", but a basic
task to be resolutely carried out throughout economic development. And
environmental protection measures, like economic development measures, should
be implemented to produce tangible results. In the environmental protection
planning, environmental protection measures should be refined, and in
particular, environmental function zoning, resource recycling, pollution
control, pollution prevention and ecological protection should be highlighted.
For enterprises with high pollution, an environmental pollution warning
mechanism should be established. Once the pollution emission is close to the
danger warning value, warning, notification and other measures should be taken
to remind relevant enterprises to pay attention to prevention and control.
Through the environmental protection system established in the development
planning, it can play an important role in the environmental work in practice.

All
local departments should strictly adhere to the threshold of environmental
protection in the work of attracting investment, and firmly push back projects
that do not meet the requirements of environmental protection, so that economic
development "benefits in the contemporary era, with achievements in the
future". In the face of economic globalization and the global industrial
structure adjustment and transfer, as well as the world's new technological
revolution, especially the opportunities brought about by information
revolution, we should be rational, serious environmental pollution for the
industry or business, even can bring good economic benefits, also the mark of
environmental protection should be strictly, strict environmental access
system. New projects must conform to the provisions of the state environmental
protection requirements and emissions standards, after a complete and
scientific conclusion does not meet the requirements of the us environmental
protection project is determined to stop, the backward enterprise or its
process of serious pollution, the equipment to increase the intensity of
selection, never for a moment of economic benefits at the expense of the
ecological environment.

We
will continue to pursue a new type of industrialization and accelerate the
transformation of the pattern of economic growth. With the continuous
improvement of investment environment in various regions of China, more and
more investors will come to China for investment and development, and various
industrial clusters will be formed. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the
starting point of technology according to industrial technology policy, adopt
clean production technology with low consumption of energy and materials and
low production of pollutants, and eliminate prohibited equipment and
technology. It is strictly forbidden to import hazardous waste and household
refuse from overseas into China. We will strictly guard the environmental
protection threshold of heavy polluting industries, and gradually introduce heavy
polluting industries to develop into scientific and technological environmental
protection industries in accordance with the actual situation of development.

In
regional economic development and urban planning, it is necessary to allocate
sound environmental protection infrastructure. The construction of
environmental protection infrastructure and economic construction should be
planned, constructed and used simultaneously. If conditions permit, the
construction of environmental infrastructure should be moderately advanced and
the space for construction and development should be reserved. The planning,
design and construction of environmental protection infrastructure should be
planned from a high starting point and constructed with high standards. On the
basis of the investment of the existing environmental infrastructure
construction, we will accelerate the construction of urban sewage treatment and
recycling projects, urban production and household waste treatment projects,
and air pollution monitoring facilities to effectively deal with the threat of
environmental pollution faced by industrial clusters and economic development.

In
the process of environmental law enforcement, the responsibilities of the
departments should be straightened out, and the coordination and integrity of
environmental supervision should be strengthened. All departments should be
fully mobilized to actively cooperate with environmental protection. The
environmental protection department should strengthen the comprehensive environmental
management, unify the environmental planning, unify the law enforcement
supervision, release the environmental protection information to the society in
a timely manner, and practically guarantee the people's right to know and to
supervise the environmental protection. Companies or individuals who violate
the law and damage the environment should be punished according to the law to
make examples. The environmental protection department should also take
environmental policy assessment as a routine work to evaluate the effect,
efficiency, impact and synthesis of environmental policy implementation in due
time, and feed back to the decision-making department for reference.
Environmental law enforcement personnel should strictly enforce the law, protect
the ecological environment, maintain the balance between economic development
and ecological environment, and protect the interests of the people to the
maximum extent from the Angle of the basic national policy of environmental
protection and the height of the sustainable development strategy. We will
strengthen oversight of law enforcement, resolutely enforce the law strictly
and investigate violations of the law, and strictly investigate and punish
environmental law violations and crimes. Comprehensive use of various
environmental regulatory measures, prevention and control, to achieve total
environmental control.